Mothers’ Hood (2025)

28/07/2025

It’s not the glass ceiling that’s holding mothers back.

🛑 It’s having to say no to a promotion because of the load they are carrying at home.
🛑 It’s not putting themselves forward for a new job because she thinks it’s selfish to want more for herself and worries her kids will suffer if she isn’t constantly available.
🛑 It’s stepping down from a executive role because the demands of the job mean they’re working evenings and weekends and are completely burnt out.
🛑 It’s wanting to take a new role which includes international travel but her mother-in-law asks ‘but what about the children’ so she declines the offer.

This is known as the maternal wall and mothers are more likely to hit this way before they even touch the ‘glass ceiling’.

In episode 10 of The Mothers’ Hood Podcast, Tamsin Broster opens up about her experience of hitting the maternal wall after the birth of her second child.

Listen as she recounts her story of stepping away from a 20-year civil service career to reclaim her identity, rebuild her confidence and rewrite what success means not just as a mother but as a woman navigating loss, IVF, leadership, and the complexity of modern motherhood.

Tamsin is a feminist visibility and confidence coach, former Ministry of Defence leader, mother of two and all-round powerhouse. I know you’ll love this one.

It’s on the usual podcast platforms now.

P.s. Can I ask a favour, please? Leaving a review on Apple or Spotify means more mothers get to hear the podcast and we’re not gatekeeping over here!

21/07/2025

It’s career su***de.

That’s the messaging we’re told as women.
That being a mother means that’s it, it’s game over for their career and they’ll just shuffle off into the background.

Unimportant.
Overlooked.
Invisible.

And we’re telling mothers that they lack drive, determination, commitment.

But what if I told you this doesn't have to be the case?

What if I told you that becoming a mother is a supercharged way of achieving bigger and better things in your career?

It can be the beginning of realising that you can achieve success on your own terms without burnout, overwhelm or exhaustion.

Giving the finger to the stuff that’s been weighing you down, shunning the outdated beliefs about motherhood and what success means is key to this.

Listen up as I drop some truth bombs in episode 9 of The Mothers’ Hood Podcast. I’m waxing lyrical on why becoming a mother can accelerate your career like a bat out of h*ll!

Listen on the usual poddy (?!) platforms.

14/07/2025

A nuclear bomb about to go off.

That’s how I recently heard someone describe the effects of the nuclear family set-up and what’s going to happen if we don’t change this.

Two heteronormative parents raising children alone - without a proper village.

It was never how we evolved to raise children yet it’s still peddled as the ‘right’ way to raise children.

It’s all around us from older generations and the media - conditioned into believing this.

And again, it’s something else that can make us feel like we’re failing as a mother if our family doesn’t look like this.

In episode 8 of the Mothers’ Hood Podcast, Robin Lynn shares her story of raising her daughter outside of a nuclear family set-up and how she has redefined what it means to her to be a good mother.

Robin also vulnerably shares:
- Navigating postpartum with bipolar disorder and infidelity by her husband
- Being blindsided in a custody battle and
- Learning to effectively co-parent with her ex-husband and his wife

I’d love to hear if this resonated with you.

Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2500920/episodes/17461516

07/07/2025

Superwoman.
Supermum.
‘I don’t know how you do it all.’

We live in a culture that celebrates and almost idolises mothers who appear to do it all and have it all together.

It’s a self-perpetuating cycle - we do more and more and are praised for doing so, so we continue to do more and more because that praise and recognition feels good.
But this is often an appearance and frequently masks burnout and exhaustion.

In episode 7, Layla O’Mara shares her experience of being Supermum and the effect it had on her.

Listen as Layla shares
- The starkly contrasting experiences of the postpartum periods of her first two children in Germany with her third in Ireland.
- How searching for answers about postpartum care led her to training as a doula and the healing that came from that.
- How diving deeper into learning and understanding about motherhood concepts and matrescence was a game changer for her to understanding her own mothering experiences and how the societal expectations contributed to her own burnout and overwhelm.

I hope this episode highlights the damaging conditioning around modern motherhood which makes us strive to do more and be more at the expense of our well-being.

Being aware of it is the first step in healing from it and rejecting those parts that do not serve you.

I’d love to hear if this resonated with you.

Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2500920/episodes/17450428-episode-7-from-supermum-addiction-to-softening-slowing-down

27/06/2025

Did you ask?

Or are you still waiting?

Are you waiting for permission to do the thing you wanted? Or did you shove that desire down and ignore your needs?

Stop waiting for permission.

That dinner with a friend, a night out, h*ll even a weekend away. It doesn’t event need to be as ‘big’ as this.

But the act of not doing the stuff you want and need over and over again; it eats away at you.

Makes you resentful, angry, burnt out.

I was on a girls weekend trip this weekend. 8 mothers all prioritising their need for connection and focusing on themselves.

This would have been unimaginable when my daughter was small. Not necessarily because of the logistics and need to be near my baby when she was little, but because I didn’t think I was allowed.

Allowed to do things for myself that brought me joy away from my family.

Allowed to have time for myself. To remember who I was. To just be, without giving and giving.

I had to learn to give myself permission and it wasn’t easy – the guilt that came up, the judgement.

This wasn’t the image of the good mother that I was conditioned with – the one who gave everything of herself to her children and family.

But I realised this wasn’t mine to carry. The unrealistic expectations and crazy high standards of modern motherhood.

I’m giving myself permission to do it my way – one that doesn’t leave me burnt out, exhausted and resentful.

It’s my act of rebellion in a world that asks us to give away all of ourselves.

Motherhood as a rebellion – who’s with me?
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I’m the Back-to-Work coach that you didn’t know you needed.

You’ve had a successful professional career and motherhood has thrown you a curveball. You know you can’t go back but don’t know how to move forwards and return to work with the confidence you once had.

The best way to start working with me is a Power Hour – a 60 minute 1:1 personalised session where we clear on what’s going on for you and fire you up with your next steps. Link in bio.

20/06/2025

It kicked my a**.

And kicked me some more along the way.

Becoming a mother was excruciating. It was so.bloody.hard.

And it still is sometimes.

I've just released my first solo episode about my journey into motherhood. So it you've ever thought - who the h*ll am I after having a baby, this one's for you.

16/06/2025

She made £40,000 from a £55 offer...

Yes, you heard me right.

No, not me...it’s Samantha Harman. The high vibe, straight talking, style queen who’s disrupting the style and business coaching industry.

I’ve been working with Samantha for a little while. It’s been insane; the shifts I’ve made have been huge. And we’re just getting started.

The community she’s created is full of powerful, high vibing women high-fiving each other left right and centre and who are generally awesome, supportive queens.

In her new Masterclass, Low-Ticket, Big Impact she’s spilling the tea on exactly how she did this.

Low-Ticket, Big Impact takes place on June 27 and there will be lifetime access to the reply.

For my biz pals out there, you need to get in on this action. My affiliate code is SAMANTHA - win-win! Link in comments.

See you there?

13/06/2025

I’ll have more impact on your career than your career coach.

Because your career coach doesn’t know that women can’t make aligned career goals and plans when they become a mother until they have spent time and space figuring out who the h*ll they are now.

Not brushing off the dusty goals and career plan you made before you went through the biggest transformation of your life and trying to crack on with that on your return.

It starts with preparing whilst on maternity leave.

Understanding what’s happened to you;

Exploring what being a mother means;

Space for finding out what you want now.

So you can hit the ground running when you return to work, fired up and ready to take on this next chapter with confidence and clarity.

Knowing who you are and what you want now that you are a professional woman AND a mother.

I’m hosting a masterclass on Wednesday 25th June at 11am on Zoom to show you what steps to take to feel confident and fired up when you return to work.

It's called Mat to Back - Return to Work with Clarity + Confidence After Maternity Leave.

It’s for you if:
✔️ You’re currently on maternity leave
✔️ You have achieved success in your professional career
✔️ You want to feel confident when you return to work.

Tickets are £11 until 5pm on Monday 16th June. The price will then go up to £33.

Link in comments to book your spot.

11/06/2025

BONUS Podcast Episode out now - Why Flexible Working isn’t the Answer.

Links in stories and comments

10/06/2025

❌ I’m calling time on the phrase ‘baby brain’. ❌

It’s another annoying AF way of condescending mothers.

It’s minimising mothers to the ‘silly little woman’ narrative who’s gone a bit doolally now she’s pregnant.

It’s another way of trying to keep mothers in their place, keeping them playing small because of course they couldn’t do anything of importance or difficulty with ‘baby brain’.

Mothers haven’t had a frontal lobotomy; their brains are changing during pregnancy.

💥 THEY ARE GROWING AN ENTIRE HUMAN BEING! 💥

It shows up in mri scans – the actual rewiring of the brain to make it more efficient and ready to raise and keep another human being alive.

So Simon making jokes at Angela’s expense when she forgets a word in her presentation needs to stop.

No wonder when mothers are preparing to return to work that their sense of self and identity relating to work (and everything else) has taken a nosedive.

Because the seed was already planted way back when they were pregnant that they’re no longer capable.

Let’s retire the baby brain narrative. It’s boring, insulting and actually a complete lie.

I’m hosting a masterclass on Wednesday 23rd June on Zoom.

Mat to back – Why Flexible Working isn’t the Answer. I’ll show you what really works when mothers are properly supported on their return to work.

Link in bio + comments to book your spot

09/06/2025

The most overlooked part of a mother’s return to work?

Her identity.

It’s not flexible working, childcare or being organised.

It’s not her wardrobe or ‘onboarding’.

It’s acknowledging, understanding and processing.

It’s reflecting, being supported and being listened to as she navigates the monumental shift into and through motherhood.

As she returns to a place that looks familiar but FEELS completely new to her.

If you’re navigating this, you need to get yourself on the list for The Confident Comeback newsletter.

It’s packed with all the stuff to get you returning to work with that hair swinging, I’m Baaaaack! Energy.

With confidence in your abilities and ready to chase those work dreams again.

It launched today so get yourself on the list before you miss any more!

www.mothershood.co.uk/newsletter

04/06/2025

I'm offering £100 off an Ignite session for the next 2 weeks.

🎊Why? I'm celebrating!🎊

The Mothers' Hood Podcast has relaunched.

🔥60 minutes 1:1 with me for £222 instead of the usual price of £333.

Let's fire you up to get clear on the next steps for your transition back to work after mat leave.

Book your place now:

www.mothershood.co.uk/ignite

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